What country has the lowest standard for whiteness?

**Token** · 08-31-2019, 09:55 PM

Originally Posted by Erronkari

Exactly.
85% is the exacly mark.
Even though, many times it's possible to find an important number of 80% Euro who look full Euro...

I actually think most 85% European people look visibly mixed, based on personal experience.

**~~Joso~~** · 08-31-2019, 10:02 PM

To me, someone who is predominantly amerindian or even fully amerindian but has light skin, is white the same as an European.
But someone who is 1% black is always brown.

**~~Adamastor~~** · 08-31-2019, 10:04 PM

Originally Posted by Token

I actually think most 85% European people look visibly mixed, based on personal experience.

Yeah, I agree. I think there's no place to ''draw the line'' if you include people below 95%+ European as ''real whites''. Someone who is 81% European hardly will look very different from someone who's 86%, for example. And phenotypes are kinda random anyway, I've seen people with 80% European blood looking whiter than 100% Europeans sometimes, so it doesn't matter. In real world you are what you look like, no one cares about these arbitrary standards of whiteness.

**Erronkari** · 08-31-2019, 10:04 PM

Originally Posted by Token

I actually think most 85% European people look visibly mixed, based on personal experience.

With black admixture yes.
But with Amerindian admixture someone who is 95% Euro is very difficult to perceive the non euro contribution...

**Token** · 08-31-2019, 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by Erronkari

With black admixture yes.
But with Amerindian admixture someone who is 95% Euro is very difficult to perceive the non euro contribution...

95% European people will always look European, no matter if the remaining 5% is Amerindian or Martian.

**Erronkari** · 08-31-2019, 10:13 PM

Originally Posted by Token

95% European people will always look European, no matter if the remaining 5% is Amerindian or Martian.

Oh... sorry hehe... how dumb I am...

I mean many "85%", not 95...
Of course not all of them... but many look very very similar to a full white... but of course some of them not as you said...

**~~Joso~~** · 08-31-2019, 10:20 PM

Originally Posted by Marmara

It was a shock to me to find out even Indians are considered white there.

Yes, Indians are definitely viewed as white here, which is not surprising considering that many of them have light skin and eyes and also the sucess of Bollywood in the last years.
There was a BR soap opera where the actors playing the hindi were white mostly and nobody questioned It.
It was called "The Clone" ( but in Portuguese), if i remember correctly.

**Token** · 08-31-2019, 10:22 PM

Originally Posted by Adamastor

Yeah, I agree. I think there's no place to ''draw the line'' if you include people below 95%+ European as ''real whites''. Someone who is 81% European hardly will look very different from someone who's 86%, for example. And phenotypes are kinda random anyway, I've seen people with 80% European blood looking whiter than 100% Europeans sometimes, so it doesn't matter. In real world you are what you look like, no one cares about these arbitrary standards of whiteness.

Agreed. Whiteness isn't necessarily synonymous to Europeanness.

**Erronkari** · 08-31-2019, 10:24 PM

Originally Posted by Token

Agreed. Whiteness isn't necessarily synonymous to Europeanness.

For example, Adamstor and you said that I look white, but in my opinion I don't pass in any Euro country, I have a very south-american sui generis look.

**Token** · 08-31-2019, 10:26 PM

Originally Posted by Jolsonaro

Yes, Indians are definitely viewed as white here, which is not surprising considering that many of them have light skin and eyes and also the sucess of Bollywood in the last years.
There was a BR soap opera where the actors playing the hindi were white mostly and nobody questioned It.
It was called "The Clone" ( but in Portuguese), if i remember correctly.

Bollywood actors are far from representative.